Geneseo begins!

kzollitsch · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:58 pm

For those that are going but haven't left yet, I just thought I'd whet your appetite for the weekend.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:55 pm

Awesome! But nobody has answered the million dollar question?

Should I haul any of my models up for the show? :shock:

AIRIC · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:00 pm

Nice shooting. Can't wait to get there.

Eric

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:19 pm

I never notice the strange camo pattern on the SB2C before (probably cause the big decal threw me off :shock:

). Did someone stumble when they were painting it???

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:33 pm

jeese.........whoever photoshopped that SB2C pic before with the full gear doors........hats off...............that just looks like hell..............or a tramp in high heels.

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

Jack Cook wrote:

I never notice the strange camo pattern on the SB2C before (probably cause the big decal threw me off :shock:

). Did someone stumble when they were painting it???

Down Jack.., down boy!!!!!!! :shock:

.

Sit.., sit down Jack and take a deeeeeep breath!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:16 am

the way the gear doors and camo should be.

Dan Newcomb · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:22 am

Have a couple of more drinks Jack and it won't look so bad.

Dan

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:24 am

I am guessing that the CAF would put the doors on there if they had them. I am sure that Helldiver parts are hard to find.

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:57 am

mustangdriver wrote:

I am guessing that the CAF would put the doors on there if they had them. I am sure that Helldiver parts are hard to find.

They are really tough to find. NASM doesn't even have a set for their own aircraft... they had to recover some from a wreck to get patterns for when they restore her. From what I understand, many ground-based Helldiver units removed the lower doors in he field, as they used to gather mud rather easily. So, it's not completely out of character.

Cheers,
Richard

SPANNERmkV · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:03 am

Don't know the story about the doors.

But is that the edge of a CAF logo I see peeking out on that #8 bird just below the pilot's canopy?
:rofl:

Sorry... feeling giddy over here. IT's Friday, my right wing is on and at some point during the day it will be 0-beer-thirty

k5083 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:36 pm

Nice pics, and I look forward to continuing to experience the show vicariously through you guys.

On the SB2C gear doors, surely no one really thinks that Ezell couldn't fabricate these, considering what he achieved with this plane, Lefty's P-38, etc.?

August

retroaviation · **Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:41 pm

I've asked a hundred times about putting gear doors on the Helldiver...even while working at Ezell Aviation, where it can certainly be done. However, the Unit the aircraft is assigned to has no intention of ever putting them on.

Gary

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:26 am

RMAllnutt wrote:

mustangdriver wrote:

I am guessing that the CAF would put the doors on there if they had them. I am sure that Helldiver parts are hard to find.

They are really tough to find. NASM doesn't even have a set for their own aircraft... they had to recover some from a wreck to get patterns for when they restore her. From what I understand, many ground-based Helldiver units removed the lower doors in he field, as they used to gather mud rather easily. So, it's not completely out of character.

Cheers,
Richard

Cant be that many ground based units.

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:27 am

mustangdriver wrote:

the way the gear doors and camo should be.

The gear door I had was blue.

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